Live chat replay: Ailene Voisin discusses how, after a week at home, Kings have progressed

DeMarcus Cousins comments on his one-game suspension after loss to Utah

"That wasn't no suspension from the organization," said Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins, "that was a suspension from the head coach, there's a difference." Cousins and head coach George Karl have also not spoken since the suspension.

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"That wasn't no suspension from the organization," said Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins, "that was a suspension from the head coach, there's a difference." Cousins and head coach George Karl have also not spoken since the suspension.

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The Sacramento Kings have 17 games remaining in the regular season, and victories in nearly all of them are needed for the team to get into the playoffs. Will it happen, or will another year of no postseason spell the end of the short George Karl era and another shakeup of player personnel. The Sacramento Bee’s Ailene Voisin tried to answer these and other questions during her weekly live chat at 11 a.m. Monday.

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Late last week, the Kings said rookie big man Marvin Bagley III would be ready to resume full basketball activities in approximately two weeks, but now Bagley says he is already running, jumping, shooting and working on his conditioning.